Yup.
Hern sounds like a zealot.
Im not a fan of pretending it isn’t a life. I’m closer to Vermont’s law than Alabama’s law, in terms of what I think the law should be, but I’m not a fan of pretending it’s not a life to make things easier. It is a life (after a certain point.) it’s ok that it’s a hard decision. It’s not ok to lie about it.
As a side de note I do love Republicans affinity for science in the abortion debate. All these years I thought their refusal to admit climate change was real was because they’re stupid and don’t understand science, I’m glad it’s just because they’re partisan hacks that don’t actually care about the environment.

Not cool with killing the dog like this.
Much more reasonable request would would have been to exhume the grave and add the dog when the dog died. Or bury the dog next to the owner.
The fact that pounds have to put down perfectly healthy dogs because their owners surrendered them (for whatever reason) does not make this ok.